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A different world for urban poor
Almost 30 per cent of small children raised in poor urban villages around Phnom Penh are experiencing stunted growth, while 35 per cent are underweight – figures significantly higher than citywide averages – a new study says. Czech NGO People in Need, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Phnom Penh municipality, studied the living conditions of hundreds of families in informal “urban poor settlements”, many of which are not serviced by basic public amenities, including water, sanitation and electricity.
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Domestic workers push for Protection
Forty national and foreign NGOs yesterday called on the government to ratify the International Labour Organization’s 2011 Domestic Workers Convention in order to better safeguard the rights of Cambodian domestic workers, both inside and outside of the country.
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Rights events pass without confrontation
With thousands of participants at rallies across Phnom Penh, International Human Rights Day was celebrated without violence or confrontation with authorities yesterday. At events held all over the capital, issues ranging from impunity to unjust arrests and prosecution were lifted front and centre by activists, politicians and marchers, some of whom spent five days trekking from Ratanakkiri province.
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Gov’t plans to install surveillance equipment
The government is planning to install surveillance equipment on the networks of country’s mobile phone and Internet service providers, a senior Interior Ministry official said yesterday, vindicating concerns about inspections the ministry quietly conducted on telecom firms in October.
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Teacher demand cash for institute
More than 100 teachers from Boung Trabek High Schol are demanding that the government increase a payment to them due to what they characterize as their contribution to a plot of land that has been designated as the site of Cambodia’s much-anticipated genocide studied institute.
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Rights warrior passes, age 51
Chan Soveth, one of Cambodia’s most respected human rights defenders, passed away suddenly in Phnom Penh yesterday. He was 51. A senior investigator at local NGO Adhoc, Soveth spent almost two decades at the forefront of investigative human rights work in the Kingdom. “We are very sad. It’s International Human Rights Day and we have lost our human rights defender,” said Ee Sarom, executive director at urban rights NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT).
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‘No arrests’ for Montagnards
The government has agreed to allow a group of Montagnard asylum seekers that have been hiding in the jungles of Ratanakkiri for more than a month to apply for refugee status if they are located, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said yesterday. Provincial officials had previously vowed to arrest and deport the group of 13 as illegal immigrants if they were found, and had also refused to cooperate with UN officials unless they were granted permission to do so by the Interior Ministry.
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Corpses of two migrant workers are repatriated
The bodies of two Cambodian migrant workers were repatriated to the Kingdom from Thailand yesterday via the Poipet border checkpoint. According to Poipet town commune chief Sin Namyoung, one of the men died after falling from a building on a construction site in Bangkok, while the other was stabbed to death in Chanthaburi province.
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Longtime Human Rights advocate Chan Soveth dies aged 51
Chan Soveth, a senior investigator at local rights group Adhoc and longtime human rights advocate, died Wednesday afternoon after spending the morning taking part in celebrations to mark Human Rights Day. He was 51.
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Government, UN agree to mission to meet Montagnards
The U.N. said Wednesday that it has received permission from the Interior Ministry to search for a group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province and transfer them to Phnom Penh to apply for asylum.
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Unions claim garment factory fired 1,200 workers for strike
Unionists claimed about 1,200 striking workers at Kandal province’s Now Corp. garment factory were fired when they went to collect their salaries Tuesday, but the company rejected the claims, saying the workers are still employed.
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B kak drainage ‘guesswork’ could cost lives, say Shukaku report
Pipes that City Hall has installed to drain water from part of the capital’s Boeung Kak lake area are too small to prevent serious flooding and could result in the deaths of local residents, a leaked report from developer Shukaku Inc says. The report, written in August 2013, alleges that the municipality installed drainage pipes along the eastern residential edge of Boeung Kak without properly assessing how much water would drain from adjacent land, especially in the event of a severe rainstorm.
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Human Rights Day activists face obstacles entering capital
Activists and monks who have been marching to Phnom Penh from across the country to mark Human Rights Day on Wednesday met with roadblocks and armed police on the city’s outskirts Tuesday morning, negotiating their way through the blockages only to find the pagodas where they intended to spend the night were locked.
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Two abused Cambodian brides come home after China ordeal
Two Cambodian women were returned to Phnom Penh on Monday after each spending more than a year in China, where they both say they suffered through abusive marriages so bad that they decided to leave their newborn babies and escape from their husbands. The rescued women were the latest in what is an increasing trend of young Cambodian women being lured to China by brokers with promises of a wealthy husband and better life, only to find themselves in abusive relationships and with few ways out.
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Svay Rieng unionists questioned
Two Svay Rieng union officers charged with incitement after striking workers blocked National Road 1 in August denied responsibility for the incident yesterday. Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) officials Cham Samnang, 28, and Chea Oudom, 23, were charged after police filed a complaint accusing them of leading protesting workers at Juli garment factory to block the road on August 18.
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EU to probe sugar dispute
Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations, according to campaigners. Resettlement experts hired by the European Commission will draft a scheme to assess the claims of thousands of villagers who were evicted with little or no compensation to make way for sugar plantations in Kampong Speu, Koh Kong and Oddar Meanchey provinces.
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New NEC law now drafted, ready for parliament introduction
The CPP and CNRP election reform working groups met briefly at the National Assembly on Monday, releasing a statement saying that the draft Law on the Organization and Functioning of the National Election Committee (NEC) has been cleared by both parties for introduction to parliament.
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In Seoul, Cambodians protest for release of jailed activists
Hundreds of Cambodians demonstrated in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Sunday, calling for the release of activists who have been jailed in Phnom Penh for taking part in a variety of protests. Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Thursday for a four-day visit to attend a summit of regional leaders.
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Clergy: ban still stands on monks’ protesting
The nation’s three highest-ranking clergymen and the minister of cults and religion on Friday reiterated a ban on monks participating in demonstrations, even as monks led marches from six different provinces into Phnom Penh ahead of international Human Rights Day on December 10. The joint statement restating the ban was issued by the national leaders of the Mohanikaya and Dhammayuttika sects of Buddhism – Great Supreme Patriarchs Tep Vong and Bou Kry, respectively – and Cambodia’s chief of monks, Supreme Patriarch Non Nget, and Minister of Cults and Religion Min Khin.
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New tragedy in ‘Hell Life’
A man who was detained for weeks at Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu social affairs centre died late last month after being denied medical treatment at the infamously abusive facility, rights groups, staff and fellow detainees said yesterday. The revelation came as Post reporters witnessed a “resident” at the centre being beaten by a member of staff. In a joint statement, Human Rights Watch and Licadho said the man, named only as Phea, was taken to the centre on November 2 after being rounded up as part of a government effort to “clean” the streets for the Water Festival.
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